CNN, quoting an aide to the Iraqi prime minister, is reporting that the Iraqi insurgent leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi has died in US bombing. Zarqawi, who carried a $25 million bounty on his head and was the most wanted man in Iraq, was a long time ally of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. With rumours of a major operation in Pakistan during the last few days, will Osama bin Laden ever be caught alive or, like Veerappan, will he only be brought in dead and carry all his secrets to the grave? On second thoughts, is Osama alive at all?

Veerapan is not dead, actually it was some look alike of Veerapan who was killed in the encounter! Osama is not hiding in any caves in Pakistan actually he is now based in MM hills and he is co-ordinating all his operations from there and last heard Subash Chandra Bose had a son who is now busy recruiting young people from the Tanglong forests in Arunanchal Pradesh, Bose Jr is apparently re-launching the INA. Now only if Dan Brown was an avid Churumuri reader he would have got the perfect script for his next book!